I’ve been listening to some of President Obama’s press conference tonight, and ran across an interesting blog, called Doctors On Strike. It’s great for some laughs, but the undertone is serious. It’s not a good idea to make the lives of medical professionals a living hell. Who do politicians think they are, really? I mean, honestly?
What kind of doctors would the Obama administration’s system create? Who will go into medicine in years hence? I’ll certainly advise my children, should they become medically inclined, to be veterinarians, cosmetic surgeons that refuse “insurance” (so-called)–anything but a doctor tethered to the Healthcare Hairball, should it actually be enacted. And the President talked about health insurance companies–as if there would or could actually be such a thing in the corrupted system he intends to impose. What insurance companies? I mean, honestly? Who would ever start an actual health insurance company again?
Doctors went on strike in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and the warning, albeit fictional, bears attention. The fictional brain surgeon in Atlas Shrugged is Dr. Thomas Hendricks. When asked why he went on “strike” against collectivized medicine, answered this way:
I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind–yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it–and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.
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A loud cheer!
I told my employees that if card chack were a reality, I would close my doors rather than live under the tyranny of some government GS-5 arbitrator to impose a contract. My company was built by ME, started by my own financial investment and ideas … not spontaniously appeared at the whym of unions or government. I brought it in and I can take it down.
Same for doctors. YOU studied. YOU sweated. YOU did all the hard work to get to where you are. For some low-level government clerk with no medical background to micro-manage your career IS slavery. I would have thought that of all people, our new President would be sensitive to the very idea of the forced labor that is slavery.
the Carpathian
The Declaration of Independence formally acknowledged that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that our government was instituted to secure these rights–not violate them, and that government itself derives its powers from the consent of the governed.
As citizens, patients and doctors have the right to make private health care decisions without governmental interference. As traders in a free market, we have the right to voluntarily negotiate mutually acceptable terms and conditions in our dealings with one another.
ObamaCare is an immoral, unconstitutional violation of individual rights. Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the very brain of our healthcare system–the independent practice of medicine in which doctors and patients have the inalienable right to make private healthcare decisions informed by the professional training and experience of the doctor and tailored to the unique needs of the patient.
Consistent with these moral and constitutional principles, we oppose and urge Congress to vote against legislation that provides for any:
Public plan option,
Mandates that force individuals to buy insurance coverage,
Mandates that force employers to provide insurance coverage,
Surcharges that force some groups to pay for the healthcare of other groups,
Mandates that force doctors to participate in public plans.
Sign the Petition to Protect Doctor-Patient Rights at http://www.doctorsonstrike.com/petitiontoprotectd… to urge Congress to preserve, protect, and defend the rights of doctors and patients in any healthcare reform bills under deliberation.
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